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Geek News for January 27th 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, a little bit of geek news.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I've got a trailer I would like to show you,
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  Speaker 2: uh huh, but because the Federal Communications Commission thinks you're
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  Speaker 2: all nine, I can't. But millions of people have been
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  Speaker 2: watching this trailer. It's for a movie called The Monkey.
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  Speaker 2: The Monkey, the Monkey. In the Monkey's case, you know,
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  Speaker 2: studios left touting trailer views when possible to show how
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  Speaker 2: much hype is behind their movies. And in the Monkey's case,
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  Speaker 2: it has a few things going for It's based off
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  Speaker 2: of Stephen King. Short story comes from Osgoode Perkins, who
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  Speaker 2: did Long Legs last year for Neone, and that that
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  Speaker 2: was a big hit for him. Nicholas Cage odd and creepy. Indeed,
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  Speaker 2: so the Monkey's trailer. Go and watch it. It's got
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  Speaker 2: shocking deaths, really dark humor, and a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: are digging it. So this is what they're saying. The
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  Speaker 2: Monkey now holds the title of having the most watched
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  Speaker 2: independent horror film trailer ever. It hit over forty three
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  Speaker 2: million worldwide views within twenty four hours of launch, and
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  Speaker 2: then it blew up to over one hundred in seventy
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  Speaker 2: two hours. At the time of the press release, that
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  Speaker 2: number went up to one hundred and nine million across
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  Speaker 2: all platforms, managed to beat out the trailers for non
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  Speaker 2: indie horror films like Smile and The Black Phone and
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  Speaker 2: Talk to Me and all those that were very popular,
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  Speaker 2: even Nosferatu. So people are digging this trailer for the Monkey. Now,
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  Speaker 2: whether that means it's a good movie or not, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see.
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  Speaker 2: So go watch the Monkey trailer because you're a grown
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  Speaker 2: up and you can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: This blood.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, people on people with their heads on fire. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: oh geez, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Ah. So that's that's coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of horror movies, Okay, Barbarian, you remember that movie?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, vaguely.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, It's it's really rare that a horror movie
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  Speaker 2: really scares me, you know, like the last time I remember,
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  Speaker 2: Baba Duke scared me.
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  Speaker 1: What what's what's Barbarian about?
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  Speaker 2: Barbarian is about they go to an airbnb and apparently
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  Speaker 2: there's somebody living in the basement. That's right, okay, and
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  Speaker 2: it's a bunch of tunnels and.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a Barbarian is living there.
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  Speaker 2: It's got nothing to do with I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: it's called Barbarian. I really don't, but it's it's a
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  Speaker 2: scary movie about this crazy person living in the basement
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  Speaker 2: of an Airbnb. But the guy who made that movie,
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  Speaker 2: Zach Kraiger, he has decided that he wants to do
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  Speaker 2: a reboot of the Resident than Evil movies. Now, ordinarily
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  Speaker 2: Hollywood had go yeah, whatever, But because this guy is
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  Speaker 2: doing it, we got a bidding war. Four studios are
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  Speaker 2: elbowing for the win. Warner Brothers, Netflix, a.
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  Speaker 1: Bunch of them.
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  Speaker 2: He is apparently a big fan of the games Resident
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  Speaker 2: Evil and he wants to do something a little closer
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  Speaker 2: to the games. But because this guy is involved, and
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  Speaker 2: he's got this new movie called called The Companion coming
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  Speaker 2: up this weekend, which I'm sure Sean Means will review.
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  Speaker 2: But this guy's at Craiger knows his horror, and Hollywood
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  Speaker 2: is paying attention and want to work with him. Neil Gamon, Mmm,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not going about it. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to tell you about the Neil game and stuff. If
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  Speaker 2: you really want to know, which I'm sure you do,
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  Speaker 2: just google Vulture Neil Gamon.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's all you need.
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  Speaker 2: Because vaults sure as the ones who are covering it
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  Speaker 2: a lot of recent allegations of sexual assault and abuse
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  Speaker 2: against the writer Neil Gaman, and following through comics publisher,
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  Speaker 2: dark Horse Comics has ended its relationship with him. Said,
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  Speaker 2: we take seriously the allegations against him. We are no
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  Speaker 2: longer publishing his works. They were just getting ready to
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  Speaker 2: release a comic book adaptation of his book, The Nancy Boys,
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  Speaker 2: that Mark Bernard and co wrote with him. He says
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  Speaker 2: he's incredibly proud of the work he did on the
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  Speaker 2: comic book, but it all pales next to Gayman's actions.
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  Speaker 1: Dark Horse will not release the trade.
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  Speaker 2: My heartbreaks for the survivors and any pain seeing these
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  Speaker 2: books on the shelves might have caused.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the Good Omens got.
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  Speaker 2: A ninety minute finale from Amazon.
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  Speaker 1: And now the question is is, oh, it's coming up. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And now the question is is what are they going
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  Speaker 2: to do about the Nanci Boys adaptive which they were
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  Speaker 2: gonna do on television and also season two of The Sandman.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they were supposed to have another season of the Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: which I really enjoyed that show. It was good, It
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  Speaker 1: was pretty damn good. But there you go.
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  Speaker 2: We got another writer on Daisy Ridley's Star Wars movie
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  Speaker 2: that brings us up to now five different writers.
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  Speaker 1: Does that make you nervous?
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  Speaker 2: It just says more about Lucasfilm's fear of the Star
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  Speaker 2: Wars fan, which you get too many fingers in there
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  Speaker 2: and then it doesn't end up being anything.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this guy's more of an action writer.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently he did like Ocean's twelve and one of the
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  Speaker 2: Bourne movies.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see. I you know, you don't sound hopeful, Lucasfilm.
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  Speaker 2: They're just so terrified of the Star Wars fan and them,
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  Speaker 2: I just say, just make a Star Wars.
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  Speaker 1: Movie and you know, either they like it or they
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  Speaker 1: don't exactly. And finally, this back to horror.
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  Speaker 2: Robert Eggers, who did Faratu and he's doing were Wolf,
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  Speaker 2: w U l F coming up and also the sequel
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  Speaker 2: to Labyrinth.
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  Speaker 1: He had this to say. He's glad to tell stories
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  Speaker 1: in the past.
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  Speaker 2: He says, the idea of having to photograph a car
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  Speaker 2: makes me ill, and the idea of photographing a cell
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  Speaker 2: phone is just death. To make a contemporary to make
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  Speaker 2: a contemporary story, you have to photograph a cell phone.
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  Speaker 2: It's just how life is. So no, I won't be
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  Speaker 2: making any modern set films. Wow, that's how he consists
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  Speaker 2: on living in the past.
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  Speaker 1: So good Luck seems to be working all right.